ad Deakin new PPTO president
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Edward Deakin, 63, the general manager of Bradford City Transport for the past 10 years, has been elected president of the Association of Public Passenger Transport Operators. He succeeds the late Albert Burrows. At the council meeting which elected Mr Deakin, no vicepresident was named. Mr Deakin is a Yorkshireman who began his career with a private coach company in the Holm Valley; later he served with Huddersfield Corporation sport, and was traffic manager at Ipswich then Rotherham before becoming gm at ;terfield, where he served for 13 years.
am Crane, 42, special duties assistant e London area office of National Carriers ;ince 1970. has been appointed manager ough. Ian Nisbet, 36, depot manager at kport since 1969, now takes over at ington.
M. C. Scott has been appointed Luton branch manager. Pickfords Heavy Haulage Ltd. He was previously traffic and general assistant at the branch.
P. D. Shearwood, 51, has taken up his new appointment as personnel manager, Pickfords International Ltd. Mr Shearwood was, until recently, recruitment and selection manager of the British Road Services Ltd Group. For the past six months he has been acting as a consultant to Pickfords International in overseas management recruitment.
P. A. Stacey, 49, since 1969 general manager of Silverline, Halls Coaches Ltd, Hounslow, and from May 1970 gm also of Valiant-Cronshaw Ltd, has resigned and is no longer associated with these companies.
Trevor Davies has been appointed a director of Training Developments (Transport) Ltd.' Mr Davies was appointed training officer of the R HA Essex Group Training Association in April 1970 and continued in that office when the Association became TDT Ltd in August 1972.
Mr Edward Deakin's first official duty as president was to present APPTO cheques and to offer congratulations to the two highestplaced students, employed by member undertakings, in the Royal Society of Arts transport diploma examinations. First prize, the APPTO Award, went to Christopher Youhill, 36, a Leeds City Transport bus driver. Apart from a brief period as an AA breakdown operator. Mr Youhill has worked only in the psv in
dustry with Ledgards and Wallace Arnold before joining Leeds. He is now studying for the CIT examinations and intends to make a career in transport; he plans td put his name forward for the undertaking's inspector interviews shortly. Second pri4-,--the APPTO Danum Award, went to John Ho' gson, 23, a schedules clerk dealing with the South Shields area for Tyneside PTE. He joined the undertaking five years ago, when it was Newcastle Corporation Transport, and plans to make his career on the traffic side of public transport. He, too, is studying for the CIT qualification, but by correspondence course because there are no local evening classes covering his subjects.